This is exactly why progressives and “RonPaulites,” need to work together to get the corporate influence out of politics. As long as the banking and other corporations are in control of the government, there isn’t going to be any good health reform, financial reform, education reform, ETC.
just had to get that off my chest.
good night.

What’s on my mind tonight? The fact that I was so so so sick of the last eight years, and even while I told myself and everyone else that all the choices suck and some suck less than others, after the relief I felt, the exhilaration! I felt that Bush and Cheney are out of the White House has been replaced with an icky malaise.

Oh, that and I’m job hunting. That’s why I’ve been away from FDL for a while. I gotta stay “up” and Obama’s been bringing me down.

It gets funky at family gatherings when I hear the winger complaints about Obama. Very irritating because there are plenty of reasons to complain without having to make stuff up.

It’s probably just me, but with 20,000 children, aged five years and younger, dying from starvation every 24 hours on this wretched planet, watching food being tossed about and wasted as pop culture entertainment simply infuriates me. I’ve never learned to put it in perspective.

Fuck this culture, fuck the Republicans and fuck the Democrats who who may as well be Republicans.

great post. I had wondered that too. I confess, I went all “low info” over the holidays and only heard about the CIA thing in passing and more about the Captain Underpants thing. And in my distracted brain, I had that fleeting thought “what’s up with that CIA incident? that seems so weird that that was even possible!” and then the thought evaporated.

I’m glad someone is paying attention and it crystalized into a hard hitting post/article.

Well. since you asked “what’s on my mind”. I’ve been thinking of these scanners that Chertoff’s company is making. I took Ann Coulter’s observation to mind and by,god, she’s right. The scanners don’t produce an anal image. So, maybe the new Fast Track pass is a suppository device you can insert into your rectum to avoid long lines. I’m thinking 2 packs.Wal-Mart.

Well, from a business aspect you’re better off selling suppositories. Plus, women have to buy 2!! Then plow some of the profits into designing ear probes and anticipate the need for catheter probes as the terrorists get more sophisticated in our imagination. *g*

Irony is something the “civilised Christian world” has never been able to “get”. Asked about those starving children, they will tell you their loving just and merciful Lord works in, well, mysterious ways.

Nope, down in Hilo town sucking up the vog that’s so thick you can cut it with a butter knife and when ya swallow ya taste the sulfur…! We need the winds that make this the ‘windward’ side to return… Nary a palm frond has rustled of late…! ;-)

I was trying to lower my coffee intake, so at night I’d switch to green tea. Then came a variety of symptoms like shortness of breath, not falling asleep til 5 a.m., etc. So I stopped the green tea and the symptoms stopped.

Author says that by offering military support the West might prolong an autocratic regime [EPA]

Marginalised by regional developments and intimidated by Washington’s Cold War and Gulf War victories, two Yemenis – so goes the joke – wondered if their country should declare war on the US, force it to occupy Yemen and care for it.
“But what if we won?” wondered one. “We would have to care for America!”

As the US and Britain prepare for covert war on Yemen, and following on their failures in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, Yemenis might wonder if the joke is becoming a reality.

ah. but i stop the coffee before 2pm, so i don’t think it’s caffeine induced. in my younger days used to be able to drink coffee all day until about an hour before sleep…. but no more, have to stop early nowadays.

I was with my pro bono attorney…it is a civil case…we got on well have 60 days to submit a Writ Of Mandamus. Doing research like mad at the law librry in the morning on internet tonight.
Glad you warmed up. S
Hi CT Selise been a while

i thought the saudis didn’t trust having their own military (a power center that could overthrow the royal family) so they contract out all military functions to the usa? maybe i’m misremembering though?

The complexities of Yemen’s political and social environment rival Iraq and Afghanistan combined. It’s really more like Somalia, a failed state. Perfect proving ground for our predator drone diplomacy — building a nation we don’t understand by systematically dismantling it stone by stone.

Thank you Selise We have a huge body of law in California Many precedents and points and authorities to use to support our contentions, genrification by infrasructure, civil rights act 1964, 1968 (Housing) 1988 all federal, Coastal Act, Local Coastal Plan and so on. They usually avoid copliance unless legaly opposed.
I am presenting boxcar removal of the undesireable rabble low income… like Shindler’s List… next week at the Ca Coastal Commission hearing. All rigged for the profiteers has nothing to do with saving the Environment. And process is corrupt as well.
Open to suggestions.

Mrs. Iselin: [cordially, at a party the Iselins are giving] How good of you to come, Tom.
Sen. Thomas Jordan: [matter-of-fact, rather than cordial] I’ve explained to your husband why I’m here.
Mrs. Iselin: Tom, I know you have strong, personal feelings about Johnny and about me. But, what I would like to find out is, how strong they really are. To put it as simply as possible, If Johnny’s name were to be put forward at the convention next week, would you attempt to block him?
Sen. Thomas Jordan: [taken slightly aback] You’re joking, of course?
Mrs. Iselin: Mr. Stevenson makes jokes, I do not.
Sen. Thomas Jordan: You’re seriously trying for the nomination for Johnny?
Mrs. Iselin: No, we couldn’t make it. But he has a good chance for the second spot. Now, I’ve answered your question, but you haven’t answered mine. Will you block us?
Sen. Thomas Jordan: Would I block you? I would spend every cent I own, and all I could borrow, to block you. There are people who think of Johnny as a clown and a buffoon, but I do not. I despise John Iselin and everything that Iselinism has come to stand for. I think, if John Iselin were a paid Soviet agent, he could not do more to harm this country than he’s doing now. You have asked me a question. Very well, I shall answer you. If you attempt a deal with the delegates, or cause Johnny’s name to be brought forward on the ticket, or if, in my canvass of the delegates tomorrow morning, I find that you are so acting, I will bring impeachment procedings against your husband on the floor of the United States Senate. And I will hit him, I promise you, with everything in my well-documented book. Mrs. Iselin: [Mrs. Iselin leaves without a word, the discussion clearly over, for the present]

PROGRESSIVES and TEABAGERS CELEBRATES 2010 Election EVERY INCUMBENT AND PARTY BACKED CANIDATES LOOSES REPUBLICANS LOOSE, DEMOCRATS LOOSE, PARTY BACKED CANDIDATES LOOSE, GRASS ROOTS DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICAN SWEEP.LAW MAKERS CAN’T BE SEEN DEALING WITH LOBBIEST NEWLY OUT OF WORK FIRED LAWMAKERS.PROGRESSIVES AND TEA BAGGERS ALLIANCE TO REMOVE 2009 LAWMAKERS BUSINESS FOR THE CITIZEN WITHOUT WALKING ON THE MIDDLE CLASS SCRAP THE NEW 2009 LAWS.START OVER WITH PEOPLE THAT WILL HOLD THE PRESIDENT ACCOUNTABLE.WE WILL CHOOSE SIDES IN 2012.EXCITEING TIMES AHEAD

Yes—no—senate and congress democrats and republicans were bending over and over from 1970,the 1980, the 1990,the first 10 of the 21 centry.Allways being told your not smart enough to understand just be glad there watching out for you and this is what you deserve.It does take a lot for the law makers to live off of.Oversize everything to fit there heads.